Christmas 2006

We have enjoyed our first American Christmas and New Year. It is certainly different having a winter Christmas. We did not have any snow, but it was certainly winter: 7oC and raining. Mark is now back to studying with a J-Term (that is a holiday class) coming up. He needs to read 100 pages a day at the moment. We have been enjoying some extra time as a family though and went to see the movie 'The Nativity Story' the other day. I am doing better although my movement is still limited and I am still seeing the chiropractor twice a week. It certainly seems to be helping though. Thank you for your prayers and Happy New Year.

Prior to Christmas Simon and Mandy (who takes the children for art classes) looked after the children for us. Mandy made these neat Christmas houses with them.

The children had fun opening their stockings in the morning. We brought them a few games to keep them occupied in the cold weather and some little plastic sleds for the snow, when or if it comes.

We had Christmas dinner at this lovely families house with another family. Mark and Rachel are also in Kentucky to be at Southern Seminary. They have two boys; Isaac and Samuel. Samuel is only a week old. Rachel leads a bible study for young girls which Anna-Marie and Rachel have been able to go to. We had a wonderful time with them. It was fun playing 'Catch Phrase' although there were quite a few communication breakdowns.